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kakobrekla: >Apple-1 Sells for World Record $905,000 USD at Bonhams
Adlai: reminds me of a story where a class (probably economics, or MBAs) had to figure out how to best monetize $100 (roughly) over the course of a weekend
decimation: I'm sure there are high-class hookers somewhere in wash dc, but I suspect they also charge $$$
decimation: let's get it below $100k !
decimation: Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 624,330 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).
mircea_popescu: $100 each ?
mircea_popescu: $proxies
asciilifeform only really hot and bothered for one patch (beyond all the chopping) - split off private key operations to $redacted machine connected via optoisolator.
WhiteCrane: how much bitcoin can i get for $4?
TheNewDeal: The $900k coin days?
ben_vulpes: anyways. is bitcoin not here to also end m$?
TheNewDeal: Strike price $400, quantity .25 , fee .03?
wywialm: ok, then. for start i would buy put option, delivering 100$ unescrowed, as a sort of unit test, at 0.25 btc per 100$ strike, i offer 0.03 btc, matures in 21 days. is it ok, los_pantalones or TheNewDeal?
los_pantalones: he can sell me $60's or buy $80's
los_pantalones: $60/$80
jurov: embedding scripting lang in the app isn't anything unusual... how m$ did it is another story
assbot: U.K. Will Have to Pay an Extra $2.6 Billion to EU Budget - WSJ - WSJ
BingoBoingo: <decimation> one can depreciate the house to $0 over 30 years << One can depreciate house to a liability within a day
decimation: one can depreciate the house to $0 over 30 years
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: u.s. post is worthless. private carriers will only deliver to reasonably large population centers, at least given normal 'human' (vs courier, $maxint) service.
BingoBoingo: Ah, $maxint child induced damage
BingoBoingo: decimation: No, like somewhere rent is $300/month instead of $maxint/month
nubbins`: and with noobs asking to buy $10 btc with ppusd
nubbins`: where do i send my $10k
asciilifeform: sufficiently large miner can, presumably, afford $maxint worth of proxies or even fallback isp.
jurov: $proxies
asciilifeform: if you like to live in forest and eat tree bark - $0 can be
chetty: I always thought it had more to do with being willing to live without whatever to the extent you would say $fuckyou to the boss, doesn't have to be money
asciilifeform: 'fuck you money,' if i recall, has the following etymology. the idea that if you came into $fuckyou, you could utter 'fuck you' to the boss at the plant tomorrow, and continue to live at least as well (consumption) as presently, indefinitely
xinxi: but i did not sell it when the price reached $1700
xiando: now I know he has 20 oz and all I need is a $2 hammer and his address to get it
xiando: omg $1227 they are attacking gold
Vexual: ;;google pineapple $50
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah a few $mil will be 'required' one way or another
asciilifeform: and $maxint or so in lawyering
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: that's what I thought but based on these numbers...($2491 for ~13mn shares doesn't add up to the published market value as it looks like the ask value is ~ 8 cents a share)
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: All officers and directors voluntarily agreed to the Company's redemption of an aggregate of 12,750,000 shares of common stock for an aggregate payment of $2,491. In doing so, the Company will have further flexibility in continuing to strengthen its balance sheet and ultimately add shareholder value. << could you help me decipher what is going on here accounting wise?
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo a yes, the $900k coin!
pete_dushenski: los_pantalones: just heard these guys closed 50mm << inching closer to that magic $bn
BingoBoingo: Was a $1000 a year discount on tuition
nubbins`: like $4k for vendor id and driver signing
nubbins`: $$$$
bounce: for comparison, OUIs cost $1250 last time I checked
FabianB: $mpexstatus
FabianB: $depth S.QNTR
mike_c: berkshire wells fargo holdings are currently worth $24B
assbot: Warren Buffett's Berkshire loses $2 billion in two days - Oct. 21, 2014
mircea_popescu: $proxies
mircea_popescu: $depth S.MPOE
mircea_popescu: $depth S.QNTR
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) Feb 2015 to drop under $70 before 2015" http://bitbet.us/bet/1059/ Odds: 96(Y):4(N) by coin, 96(Y):4(N) by weight. Total bet: 1.1 BTC. Current weight: 99,982.
[]bot: Bet created: "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) Feb 2015 to drop under $70 before 2015" http://bitbet.us/bet/1059/
mircea_popescu: $depth S.QNTR
pete_dushenski: when i first saw this jacket in banff, btc was $350 so it was 2 btc so i balked.
fluffypony: it's also $400, so there's that
assbot: 2.4GHz Gatling - $400.00 : Truerc Canada, Lipos, UHF and antennas for FPV!
ben_vulpes: $ cp ~/.bitcoin ~/.bitcoin-test && ./ancient-bitcoind -datadir ~/.bitcoin-test ?
assbot: BitBet - Gold above $1200 on November 1st :: 1.07 B (66%) on Yes, 0.54 B (34%) on No | closed 3 days 3 hours ago
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to drop under $200 before December :: 2.03 B (10%) on Yes, 17.33 B (90%) on No | closed 3 hours 46 minutes ago
asciilifeform: meaning, rigorously, that for all valid machine ints i, i <= $maxint
asciilifeform: this is precisely what i mean when i say that one thing or another costs $maxint
assbot: You Think The Deficit Is Bad? Federal Unfunded Liabilities Exceed $127 Trillion - Forbes
decimation: http://www.usdebtclock.org/ depending on how you count there are about $100-$250 trillion in outstanding liabilities
decimation: now the us runs a net trade deficit of >500$bn per year
ben_vulpes: xCXXFLAGS=....$(HARDENING)
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to rise above $600 before December" http://bitbet.us/bet/1055/ Odds: 22(Y):78(N) by coin, 24(Y):76(N) by weight. Total bet: 14.8359 BTC. Current weight: 62,167.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $200 before December" http://bitbet.us/bet/1056/ Odds: 10(Y):90(N) by coin, 13(Y):87(N) by weight. Total bet: 19.36233458 BTC. Current weight: 50,351.
jurov: a) is better and cheaper solved by distribution of $maxint mass produced boxen than relying on users to diy
Apocalyptic: also to nitpick the prices you listed add up to $250n not $300 :)
mircea_popescu: well yea, $0 is the currently going price for that
jurov: mircea_popescu: even if second satoshi came and enable doing it safely, would you yourself lend your machines to the cloud for $0.01/hour (currently going price)?
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.05424999 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $200 before December" http://bitbet.us/bet/1056/ Odds: 12(Y):88(N) by coin, 14(Y):86(N) by weight. Total bet: 17.36233458 BTC. Current weight: 50,397.
mike_c: on kickstarter those guys are selling a hover board for $450 that.. doesn't hover.
assbot: We rode a $10,000 hoverboard, and you can too
othernubs`: xanthyos, postage is about $2 to usa, what denomination you want?
mircea_popescu: * Adlai must admit that he first misread that headline as "BitBet lands $14.5M ..." << da fuck would bitbet do with 15mn.
asciilifeform: decimation: thing is, this is not like you or i paying a junkman $100 to be rid of an ancient car
decimation: asciilifeform: did you see that IBM had to pay $1.5 bn to get rid of their chip business?
mircea_popescu: "MMADX hopes to turn profitable in 2015. According to the presentation, its projected earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization for fiscal 2016 and 2017 are A$23.2 million and A$34.2 million, respectively. At that time, or before, the company could undertake an initial public offering, the presentation states."
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Nothing I said contradicts that conclusion. At $900k/BTC a lot of things become possibilities
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to rise above $600 before December" http://bitbet.us/bet/1055/ Odds: 25(Y):75(N) by coin, 27(Y):73(N) by weight. Total bet: 12.8359 BTC. Current weight: 64,561.
mircea_popescu: should be more or less in the $100 range that you were discussing.
jurov: $600/mo +
jurov: so you'll gonna having customers that dwarf the $100 figure right from the start?
kakobrekla: 100$ a week should not be a number of importance
jurov: mircea_popescu: how do you imagine economic model of such hosting? if we put everything onnto one basked and then one ddos burns $100/week of bandwidth, who'll pay?
nubbins`: $9.75ea for another 6
assbot: Warren Buffett losing over $1 billion on IBM - MarketWatch
mircea_popescu: assbot: Intel Subsidiary Agrees to $750,000 Penalty for Unauthorized Encryption Exports << now that is news! got a BingoBoingo in da haus ?
assbot: IBM Pays GlobalFoundries $1.5 Billion To Shed Its Chip Division - Slashdot
assbot: Intel Subsidiary Agrees to $750,000 Penalty for Unauthorized Encryption Exports
cazalla: here we go "One such customer is the Australian stock market listed Digital BTC6, which purchased mining hardware from BitFury in March, May and August ((March and May purchase was a $2 million investment, August was $1.3 million.) of 2014.
gribble: Bre-X - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bre-X>; Bre-X $6 Billion Gold Fraud Story - Business Insider: <http://www.businessinsider.com/bre-x-6-billion-gold-fraud-indonesia-2014-10?op=1>; A Lode of Lies: How Bre-X Fooled Everyone - Washington Post: <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/canada/stories/brex051897.htm>
Adlai: at no point in history has the total AUM of all running scalpl instances exceeded $10K
BingoBoingo: $300-Maxint, median seems aroung $1500 per pistol
kakobrekla: PeterL if you are going to do it, make the syntax 'New blog post on $sitename by $author: $url" ☟︎
decimation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29 "171 Liberia $1,491 mn"
ben_vulpes: dead $SACRED_COW
punkman: so where does one host a blog that can take some abuse and won't cost $2k a month?
fivezerotwo: remain assured that after i've maxed out the limits of this tiny $10 vps, i'll be actually attacking qntra.net / trilema.com / et al, for realz.